Mosaic is the art of arranging colored small pieces of glass‚ stone or marble to create a decorative composition or a picture. Between the 4th century and 1453 (when the Ottomans conquered Constantinople)‚ the medium was a fundamental part of the decoration of important buildings in Constantinople (Cimok 1998‚ jacket). Byzantine mosaics were generally created for the decoration of churches. Most of the churches were basilica or central church plans (Lassus 1967‚ 130). The mosaics in Constantinople
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Chapter 9 P192-211 Civilization in Eastern Europe: Byzantium and Orthodox Europe Introduction: BIG IDEAS DETAILS One: Two major Christian civilizations took shape- the orthodox Christian Byzantine & Catholicism in Central and West Europe- yet the remained mostly different Two: Expansion into areas never controlled before • Both new civilizations were impacted by Islam o They had Different principles • Byzantine places a higher stress on politics‚ economy‚ and cultural life (from
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command of Datis and Artaphernes. The allied Greeks followed up their success by destroying the rest of the Persian fleet at the Battle of Mycale‚ before expelling Persian garrisons from Sestos (479 BC) and Byzantium (478 BC). The actions of the general Pausanias at the siege of Byzantium alienated many of the Greek states from the Spartans‚ and the anti-Persian alliance was therefore reconstituted around Athenian leadership‚ as the so-called Delian League. The Persian war was remarkable not
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corruption. After many years of Roman rule the empire lost its final battle. Luckily the Roman dream was preserved through many new empires‚ events and groups of people which included the Muslims‚ the Catholic Church‚ the Barbarian invasion‚ and the Byzantium Empire. These people and events influenced the way Western civilization has developed today. One period in history that had many contributions to the way western civilization has developed today is the middle ages. The idea that the Middle Ages
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The political split was first formalized by Emperor Diocletian‚ who split the eastern and western halves of the empire into separate administrations. The splits were institutionalized by Constantine‚ who moved his capital to the city of Byzantium. He did it because the empire was too big for one seat of administration to manage. Also the Easter (Greek) part of the empire resented the rule of the western (Latin) part of it‚ so this was also to appease the people of the eastern part of the empire.
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is because there are other factors such as religious beliefs and the supernatural‚ such as having relics and seeing spirits‚ the tactics and leadership of the people that led the crusades as well as the help that the Christians received from the Byzantium emperor‚ Alexius Muslim disunity was an important factor which lead to the success of the First Crusade. This is because the fact that the Muslim army were divided made it easier for the crusaders to attack and capture Jerusalem. An example of this
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Empire‚ its name deriving from‚ Byzantium‚ the place of Constantinople. The Byzantine Empire reached its climax during the sovereignty of Emperor Justinian 1. Italy‚ southern Spain‚ and North Africa‚ were conquered by the Byzantines. The Justinian code of laws was developed‚ and the Church of Hagia Sophia was built. Southern Spain was lost to the Visigoths and Italy was lost to the Lombard’s after Justinian’s death. There was a long war between Persia and Byzantium‚ to which both empires were weakened
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influence of the Empress Theodora‚ Justinian’s Code‚ and Justinian’s efforts to recapture the west. b. Describe the relationship between the Roman and Byzantine Empires; include the impact Byzantium had on Moscow and the Russian Empire‚ the effect of Byzantine culture on Tsar Ivan III and Kiev‚ and the rise of Constantinople as a center for law‚ religion‚ and the arts. c. Explain the Great Schism of 1054 CE
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The Sacred and Profane‚ by Mircea Eliade‚ divides and distinguishes the world into two existential situations: the sacred and the profane. Eliade describes the sacred as‚ “always manifesting itself as a reality of a wholly different order from ‘natural’ realities” (10) and inversely describes profane as the “opposite” of the sacred. The sacred involves a level of creation and organization while the profane is in an essence chaotic and disorganized. Eliade also made it apparent that the division between
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The Fall of the Earthly Heaven To this day the 29 May 1453 is regarded as a holy day‚ not only in the Orthodox Church‚ but in all of Greece. The fall of Constantinople not only symbolized a collapse of the Roman Empire‚ but of all of Eastern Christendom at least that is what was thought. It was the wealthiest city in the world at the time‚ possessing over one-third of the world’s wealth: and a city of such great magnitude‚ which only city of one-sixth of the worlds population could poses. At it’s
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